Re: Financial Times Article on Self-Archiving: 23 July 2001

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:44:03 +0100

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Albert Henderson wrote:

> > > sh> virtually all of the self-archived preprints in arxiv are
> > > sh> submitted to refereed journals, revised... [etc]
> >
> > http://opcit.eprints.org/tdb198/opcit/
>
> In his analysis of the papers on the LANL
> server, Tim Brody tells us:
>
> "The proportion of papers that have got
> Journal-ref entries is 36.87%." This
> would include those that are submitted
> after formal publication rather than
> being first submitted as preprints.
>
> Thank you for your help. It appears that the physics
> situation is much the same as the informal literature
> studied by Garvey and others.

All that datum tells you is what proportion of the papers have the
final journal citation inserted by their authors, not what proportion
are submitted or published.

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